Saturday, February 27th marked the 12th Annual Heart Ball. The event met and surpassed its $2 million goal, raising $2,025,000 million. The Heart Ball was held at the Ritz-Carlton in Tysons Corner and featured spectacular live and silent auctions, live music, inspiration stories of survival and a five-star seated dinner. Heart disease is the number [...]
David Bender is the President of Blake Real Estate. He is also the Chair of the 2010 Greater Washington Region Heart Ball. This is the 12th year of the DC Heart Ball and we had the opportunity to talk to Bender about why this cause is so important. He shared with us some of the [...]
Some executives do philanthropic work out of duty. CACI’s CEO Paul Cofoni does it out of passion. In June 2008, Cofoni underwent double bypass surgery. Several months later, barely back on the job, Cofoni was asked by the American Heart Association to chair an upcoming event: Start! Heart Walk 2009. It was an offer Cofoni [...]
For the past 11 years, the Heart Ball has brought together top business and philanthropic leaders for one goal: to build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular disease and stroke. This year, Sudhakar Shenoy, founder, chairman and CEO of IMC, Inc. will help carry on that tradition. Joined by more than 600 of the area’s most [...]
